Oh, sorry for being cryptic. The term "aug" just made me think BRE is set in the same fictional milieu as "The Old Man And The Martian Sea" and that there might be overlapping characters (specifically the eponymous old man because of the spoiler he underwent).

Ah, right - I wrote that story so long ago, I'd forgotten the character name!

I was beginning to think about some of the ideas in the BRE universe at the time, so, yes, the "aug" and "descrutinized zones" mentioned in that story show up in the new book. But I don't really think of them as fitting in the same universe.

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